Facebook Reports “Explosion At Suvarnbhumi Airport” But It Was just An Electrical Fault

A Facebook post reporting of an explosion in the AOB building of Suvarnabhumi airport resulted in sirens going off and a staff evacuation.

The AOB building contains airport authority offices. As it turns out there was no explosion just a power outage that lasted roughly 20 minutes.

Fire crews were called but no one was hurt.

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The electrical outage was apparently caused by a damaged transformer. Media reported Chutrakoon Yorsamadee the airports authority representative said he wasn’t aware of any problem. Shortly after they admitted that a breaker had been tripped resulting in a system reboot.

The power issues come just a few days after EGAT chief had claimed that power outages in Bangkok were now a thing of the past.